My main concerns with this venture are
1. it will immediately be targeted by numerous bad actors with lots of money and clout
2. to my understanding KF still makes negative money a month and is already dealing with tedious litigation, so this will be very difficult to fund and focus time on independently
3. the noise from bad actors will preemptively doom any reputation-building attempts for the space as a respectable entity separate from KF, making correction of point 2 even more difficult
4. not trusting that even a vetted 3rd-party authentification app would be immune from shitty tech males
There’s irony in women being the ones with the autistic patience to troubleshoot the first computers and make them commercially viable, only to now be a increasingly small minority in the CS field, largely because it’s a sausagefest comprising the worst of the worst. Programming was just stupid unimportant women’s work when it was getting the first supercomputers built and functional, but now that it’s brainfried scrotes copypasting someone else's code, there’s big money and even prestige in being a codemonkey.
So many IT/remote support moids are both open sex pests as well as completely incompetent. Some do sadly know what they’re doing and predictably use their tech autism/industry connections to be a menace. Regardless of skill, the inverse of “Gay or European” for the modern woman working with remote IT moids is “Troon or SEAsian”. Even if they’re not an obvious bob vagene stereotype they both get so pathetically aggressive and weird once they know you’re a woman, especially one who doesn’t defer and let them be creepy.
I like the idea of a gatekept online space, but would not easily trust any 3rd-party tech to not have a misogynistic mole or five on payroll. It only takes one vindictive moid with the proper clearance to shit things up, job fallout be damned—call me paranoid but if a tech moid could cause harm to a concept like this, zealotry could easily outweigh the legal consequences for him. As much as troons hate KF and anything associated with Null already, something like this would really activate their almonds. Sexually scorned men are single-mindedly driven by their gay hatred and hurt feelings to cause problems for women they’re angry with, and getting to finally beat down troondox Internet forum man (Keffals who?) would be an irresistable bonus. That said…
I badly want to see LFJ and Co. walk the Keffals Hajj. However, even if successfully defanged he’s obviously not the only rich tech troon with an ax to grind. Keffals failed because he’s a coke-snorting idiot working on his own merits, that is to say nothing. LFJ has succeeded and stayed up high because he has money and insulation within his work. He has social connections. Someone on your team would have to be willing to do the media circuit, and that brave, unfortunate person will be under the finest microscope imaginable.
Have you to talked to Anna Slatz? About this or in general? That would be an interesting conversation.